Text Effect Quickie: Moon Shine Text Effect

In just a few simple steps, you can add a calm, easy-going text effect — great for evening events and crisp banners.

This is a Text Effect Quickie — a tutorial that teaches an effect quickly, yet is an effective technique that can be used time and time again. If you’re looking for advanced tutorials, be sure to check out the rest of our Photoshop Tutorials on Tutorial9!

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This Text Effect Quickie will show you how to easily create a soft glowing moon-like text.

Awesome tutorial. The effect is really awesome. It actually inspired me for my logo design and I got my designer from LogoDesignPlanet.com to design a logo incorporating elements found from your tut. It came out better than expected as I thought it would be difficult to look strong and corporate but it looked really polished. Even my friends who were skeptics at first were blown away by how the logo design turned out. I got to thank you for posting this tut as I did show to my designer for reference to how I want it to look like. Thanks heaps!

Thanks for the tutorial , very helpful. You can make it more helpful if you add some explanation why you add such layer effects. This will help people like me who doesn t know Photoshop to better understand.

First of all… Thank you very much for the effort publishing such simple but powerfull tuts!

I made a wallpaper out of this one with a widescreen resolution which is 1920×1200. I dont know if such a high resolution causes the problem I am having but i am very interested in how to solve it: The problem is the gradient you use which cause banding which are in a very annoiing way visible. I tried to apply some noise but that doesnt help either. How do i solve this banding problem?

@Uproar: Thanks Ray :) All the writers at Tutorial9 do what they can to help the community. Just in case you missed it, this Tutorial was actually written by Tyler Bramer, but we’ll all be sure to take this as a huge compliment, so thank you!

Hey David ive been viewing your work for the past few weeks now, and really love this site, i venture around the places like this alot of the time, but this site makes me want to come back for me, your tutorials are easy and detailed to follow, because of this site i was introduced to http://www.sxc.hu and my condolences go out to you and your hard work putting such a great learning experience for beginners to highly adept graphic designers. With this site there is always something new to learn and this moonshine is just one of many.

great simple and VERY effective text style :) keep it up david i am always telling everyone about this place. for great experience.

You can make those glares a little more realistic by doubling up the layers and setting one to screen, and the other to ‘color dodge’. Adjust the visibility by tweaking the levels of each layer, not the opacity.